Nobody gets invited to speak from nowhere. A fest team booking an unproven speaker needs some public evidence of judgement and communication ability before taking that risk.
What builds that evidence, before a single invite
- Writing publicly about what you're building or have learned — it's the cheapest, most durable evidence of clear thinking available to anyone.
- Speaking at a smaller, lower-stakes venue first: your own club, a meetup, a smaller local event.
- Being visibly active and helpful in a community — answering questions well, mentoring informally — before ever asking for a stage.
The first invite usually comes from someone who already saw this evidence
It rarely comes cold from a stranger scanning profiles — it comes from someone who already read a post, saw an answer you gave, or watched you help someone else. Build that trail first.
GenAI engineer and AI product builder with 2+ years shipping production-grade AI systems: RAG pipelines, fine-tuned LLMs, hybrid retrieval and multi-modal apps across vision, speech and OCR, architected end to end from ingestion to deployment. Leads engineering for SCULT INDIA's 14-member team, founded the 500+ member TechVerse Enclave community and has mentored 200+ students. Three hackathon first prizes: Changethon 2025 (IIT Roorkee), Product Genesis at Vividhotsava 2025 (CSJMU Kanpur) and BYTEBATTLE (MeetKats).
Open to GenAI roles, hackathon judging, mentorship sessions and guest talks at colleges. Email pranjulrathour41@gmail.com.
